When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light.
As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens.
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My favorite play is A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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My favorite play is THE GLASS MENAGERIE
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I follow and my favorite play is The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
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My favorite play is Romeo & Juliet
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I seen Oliver Twist when I was younger! It was really good!
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I love beauty and the beast...i guess its a musical but its all i got....
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My favorite play is "Arsenic and Old Lace", and I love the movie with Cary Grant in it just as much!!! It is one of the obscure ones, but it is hilarious, horrifying and heart-warming at the same time. A MUST WATCH! :)
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My favorite play would be My Fair Lady.
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My favorite play is Much Ado About Nothing. I really like Beatrice.
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My favorite play is a midsummer night's dream.
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Favorite play would be Midsummers Night's Dream
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This book looks intriguing!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite play is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - and esp. loved the Liz Taylor/Paul Newman movie adaptation.
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Well, I don't believe I've ever seen either as plays, but they commonly are plays: Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing. Love the movies, so I'm sure I would love the plays as much!
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My favorite play is Proof.. I'm a theatre fanatic.. but I am more crazy about musicals.
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Favorite play is Phantom of the opera.
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My favorite play is Rent.
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My fav play is Cat on a hot tin roof! STELLLA!
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I love A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Coat, was my favorite play.
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My favorite play is The History Boys by Alan Bennett
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The Phantom of the Opera. Still amazes me how good that show was.
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Oooh, favorite play? There's so many. I'll go with My Fair Lady.
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Favorite play would be Midsummers Night's Dream
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Our Town is my favorite play for sure. lhoffpauir at gmail
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My favorite is more of a musical. I like Brigadoon.
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My favorite play is Death of a Salesman.
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My favorite play of all time is Our Town.
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My Favorite would have to be Macbeth, my email is tornadothoughts@gmail.com
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Romero & Juliet !
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My favorite play is Romeo and Juliet.
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I love so many plays for different reasons, but Grease is a play I can see over and over again. It's so fun!
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I loved Phantom of the Opera. It's my favorite school field trip.
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My favorite is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!!!
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ReplyDeleteThe only plays I've ever seen were the shakespear ones we went to when i was in high school. Out of all of those I'd have to go with Hamlet. The actors did an amazing job and I was pulled right into the story. It was so easy to forget it was a play.
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Romeo and Juliet for sure! Such a beautiful classic :)
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I think Macbeth might be my favorite play--though I'd really love to see some more to expand my knowledge of them :)
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My favorite play is Buried Child.
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Thanks for hosting this giveaway! My favorite play would have to be CATS on broadway! I loved it!!!
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I actually got to see a college production of Lysistrata. It was hilarious! I also really enjoyed Cyrano de Bergerac as a play.
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I have to go musical as well with Avenue Q. GFC-geekdgirl
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My favourite play would probably be The Snow Queen, which was mostly ballet but had a very beautiful narrator and gorgeous costumes.
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my favorite play is the Taming of the Shrew.
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I loved Phantom of the Opera!!
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I haven't watched many plays (not counting musicals) but have read several. The Laramie Project is one that I will never forget.
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My favorite play was scrooge at a dinner theater house. Thanks for the giveaway
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My favorite play? OMG, that's impossible. I've been in so many . . . and seen so many . . .
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Well, I guess for argument's sake, I'll say Wicked. It's certainly in my top 10.
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My favourite play is a musical called "The Mikado"
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My favorite play is Hamlet.
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I love Merchant of Venice.
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Phantom of the Opera!
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Miss Saigon is my favorite.
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I loved Guys and Dolls.
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Les Miserables is my favorite.
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Probably Macbeth. I don't get out to plays much. I saw The Shunning here a couple months back. It was interesting. LOL.
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Currant favorite is Wicked.
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Thanks for giving away such a cool sounding book! My favourite play is either The Moustrap or London Assurances - though when I saw both, I was fortunate enough to see them with such a great cast and sets and such, that it would have been impossible not to love them. Read, my favourite is probably No Exit by JPS. Just because, even now, 7 years after I read it, I am still mulling it over in my head. Freaky, right?
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Favorite play is Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Hard to pick a favorite, but saw an incredible presentation of Death of a Salesman!
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My favorite play is Othello.
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My favorite play is Antony and Cleopatra.
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My favourite play would be... well I'm not really into plays, I like musicals better so does Beauty and the Beast count or even Lion King? I loved those!
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My favorite play is A Midsummer Night's Dream. Give me Shakespeare any day!
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Just one favorite play? I love Twelfth Night and The Crucible the most (yeah, all over the place, I know).
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I think The Crucible is a very meaningful play. I love it!
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Hmm... favorite play, Pygmalion...
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I'm not sure if Phantom of the Opera is a play... maybe it's more of an opera/musical. I also liked the Black Swan... not sure if that's a play either D: Thanks for the giveaway!!
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My favorite play is HAMLET. I loved reading and learning about it in my Shakespeare course in college.
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Thanks for the giveaway and for participating in this blog hop! I already follow via GFC (Bornajhawk).
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I enjoy Macbeth the best!
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